Shropshire Archives

letter from J. Stanley to Thomas Stanley with news of arrival at Spithead and of the Deptford, Dolphin, Harwich, voyage from St Helena, death of two boys, 25 August 1746

letter from Robert Watkins at Plymouth Sound to William Lutwyche, Wenlock, Shropshire, with news of the Yarmouth, Eastern Squadron, 31 August 1746

letter from J. Stanley, HMS Lowestoft, St Kitts to Thomas Stanley, Buildwas Abbey, with references to loss of the Ottley, his being made surgeon on the Lowestoft, taking French and Spanish prizes, 10 January 1747

correspondence of Joseph Brame, British Consul at Genoa, 1794-7, including letters from Horatio Nelson, 1796 and description of the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797

letters from Commander Hugh Dunlop to L.R. Price, HMS Challenger, regarding naval policy and Mexican affairs, 1856-62

letter with reference to proposal for Admiralty Transport Board, 1861

papers relating to John Edwards of Great Ness, mainly certificates of examinations and appointments to the navy, 1863-72

diaries of Captain G.D. Owen, onboard HMS Achilles, 1914, and HMS Royal Sovereign, 1920

correspondence of Lord Powis regarding presentation plate to HMS Shropshire, 1929

ball in aid of British Sailors' Society, 1926

share certificates of Anne Lloyd Jones of Hanwood in Eastbourne Shipping Company, 30 August 1898

letter books and letter of Ralph Leeke, paymaster at Islamabad and resident at Tipperah, under the East India Company, 1778-85

papers of the Coalbrookdale Company including conditions of contract for supplying British iron to the East India Company, 16 January 1822

diary of George Jones, Portsmouth, 1845-6, mention of the passage of Dr Bushell of Hartford, Connecticutt, on the Victoria to Boston, April 1846 'a good speciman of American'

diary of a gentleman, 1775, girls dancing a country dance, finish.

file of papers relating to the visit of Sir Offley Wakeman and Mr Goodber to NATO and SHAPE in September 1955

[nb new number to be LB11/??], information of Richard Stott against Charles Chetwynd for spreading false rumour about the naval engagements in war with the Dutch, c.1665

correspondence of Mr Stafford Price and his wife Margaret between themselves and others, including voyages to and from England, Italy, travel to Mexico, steamers and packets, loss of the Tweed in 1847, voyage from New Orleans to Le Havre via New York, 1847, first half of the nineteenth century

diaries and journals of L.R. Price, 1852-71, including account of voyage to Vera Cruz, 1852, news of shipping during Mexican crisis of 1862, voyages to England, 1862, 1865, 1867, holiday in Brighton, 1878, voyage from London to San Francisco, 1871

letters and papers between James Mackintosh and L.R. Price concerning cargo of curango bark to Southampton on the Pacific Steam Navigation Company steamer San Carlos, 1871

accounts by L.R. Price and Emile Balbian of the shipwreck of the Tweed, steamer, on the Alacranes Reef while on voyage from Southampton to Vera Cruz, 1847

subscription list for providing suitable testimony to the chief mate of the Emilio in the resuce of survivors of the Tweed, 19 April 1847

diary by R.A. Slaney of Walferd Manor, Nov. 1861 - March 1862, overseas

letter from Philip Snape at London to his uncle Revd R.J. Davies at Aberhafesp with news of his emigrating to Australia, 6 May 1837

account of proceeds of sale of wreck for district of Padstow for 1876-7, 1878

letter from HM Customs House to Captain Hoskens at Ellenglaze regarding stamps worth 4/8 for unclaimed wreck on manor of Ellenglaze, 17 May 1882

Scotland shares in harbour A,

letter of W. Sandys to his wife Eliza at Lanarth, Cornwall with reference to the Port of London Society, Naval and Military Bible Society, 9 May 1821

letter from Rowland Hunt of Shrewsbury to John Mytton of Halston including an account of the life of his son John Hunt, midshipman on the Barfleur, 1 March 1806

logbook of HMS Cambrian, 1798-1801

Ludlow ship money: ship money roll